Corporate Counsel

Who We Are

At Sectigo, we align around our mission and pride ourselves in helping thousands of customers sleep better at night.

"When people think Online trust management, they think Sectigo because we offer our customers unparalleled peace of mind."

How we show up with each other and our customers every day is just as important, and we win as #OneSectigo by living out our core values - S upport, E xcellence, C ollaboration, T eamwork, I ntegrity, G rowth and O penness. We are committed to investing in our diverse teams where everyone understands their role and how they support our strategic goals, we drive operational excellence through scale and efficiency, and we strive to delight our customers and become the market leader in our industry. If you aspire to join a driven team that holds each other accountable to meeting our lofty goals and you'd like to be part of our growth story in delivering a market leading user experience, we'd like to talk to you.

What We Are Looking For

The Corporate Counsel will manage a broad range of IP transactional, corporate, and commercial matters and will ensure the legality of various types of commercial and corporate agreements. This attorney will work directly for the head of the Legal Department and provide support to company management on a wide variety of issues. The primary responsibilities for the Corporate Counsel will include drafting, revising, and negotiating global complex agreements with customers and vendors by providing legal advice and counsel to various company departments, as well as providing senior management and contributing legal input as part of the development of the company's compliance policies and control functions. This individual will report to our Cary, North Carolina office 5 days a week.

What You'll Be Doing

• Draft, review, revise and negotiate a broad range of legal agreements, including SaaS agreements, technology licenses, service agreements and partnership agreements.

• Provide legal advice, counsel and support on a variety of global legal issues on a daily basis in a timely and effective manner.

• Provide assistance in implementing corporate legal policy.

• Assist as needed with other types of contracts, ethics inquiries and corporate compliance matters.

• Identify, research and analyze relevant federal, state and local requirements and translate the requirements into business solutions.

• Participate in due diligence for mergers and acquisitions and other transactions.

• Other duties as assigned and related to the nature of this role and company initiatives.

This is an individual contributor role, reporting to our General Counsel.

Education

Requirements:

• J.D. from ABA accredited law school and admission to at least one state bar as a member in good standing.

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years of in-house and/or medium-large law firm experience with a focus on commercial and/or technology transactions.

• Experience in one or more areas, including either M&A, IP transactions, or trade regulations/regulatory compliance is strongly preferred.

Talents and Desired Qualifications:

• Excellent negotiation and communications skills.

• Experience drafting and negotiating complex SaaS technology agreements.

• Knowledge of legal issues in complex business transactions.

• M&A and/or regulatory compliance experience a plus.

• Excellent reading, writing, and negotiation skills, and the ability to interact and communicate effectively with all levels of staff, including senior management.

• Must be responsive, detail-oriented, observant and pragmatic-the ability to spot issues must be complemented with the ability to find practical solutions.

• Practical lawyering sense, the ability to balance risk considerations versus commercial needs, as well as the ability to exercise sound legal judgment in grey areas.

• This attorney will need to function independently, as well as being a part of a team.

• Service industry experience a plus.